Mrs. Higgs and Ms. Dick grade 5/6

  In writing this week, we learned about residential schools and orange shirt day. We wrote what we thought, then listened to a story and wrote what we learned from it. We went outside to sketch and write about nature. In math we are still learning about place value. Some of us were building numbers with blocks. Some of us were comparing decimals to the thousandths place. We played a game called Decimal Dots. In social studies, the grade 6's learned about the different levels of government. The grade 5's were learning about the regions of Canada. We looked at pictures around the room and tried to figure out which region they were from. In science, the grade 5's learned about air presure. We did two experiments to show how air has pressure. The grade 6's learned about the levels of the forest. We learned they are called, the upper canopy, understory/middle story, underbrush/shrubbery level and the forest floor. We made a flip book in our visual journals to show the level

 It has been a busy but short week in grade 5/6. In gym this week played Pin Ball. It was a type of dodgeball where we were trying to knock down the other team's pins.  In math this week we worked on place value into the millions. We wrote  numbers in standard form, expanded and with words. We played Place Value Yahtzee and Rock 'n Roll. We also started  learning about decimals to the thousandths. In writing this week we wrote poems inspired by Terry Fox. We tried to include figurative language such as similes. We talked about lines and stanzas. We used a success criteria to mark our work. In grade 6 social studies we came up with an acronym for the Pillars of Democracy (justice, freedom, equity and representation JFER).  An examples of our acronyms are Joe Eats Frozen Rats or Jaden Ends Fire Rain. In grade 5 we matched definitions with words around the room. The categories were landforms, vegetation, climate, regions of Canada and natural resources. In grade 6 science we went

 Sept. 12-16 We had another great week in grades 5 and 6. Here are a few of the highlights. In math we finished cartesian planes and did a final check in. We have now started learning about reading and writing large numbers (place value). We worked on numbers in the ten thousands and hundred thousands. We learned a new game called Rock 'n Roll. Each morning we do a math challenge. This week we tried 2 Solve Me Mobiles. In writing we started learning about poetry. We read a poem called "If I Were a Tree", then we went outside and described what it might feel like to be a tree. We learned about different types of poems like epic poems and ballads. We discussed how poems are different from paragraphs and have lines and stanzas. We also went outside to observe the weather. Then we wrote poems about it. In science the grade 5's started looking at and recording weather using a weather forecast. We discussed temperature and started using thermometers. We put them in differen

 This is our new Blog. You can check it every weekend to find out what we learned in school that week. We've had a great start to grade 5 and 6 and have learned a lot already. In writing we used a picture of a hot air balloon to help us write juicy words. We brainstormed interesting words in small groups using a thesaurus. We also worked on using 'joining words' to write compound sentences.  In math we started learning about Cartesian planes. We played Battleship to help us read and write ordered pairs (coordinates). Each morning we did a Morning Challenge. They included estimating, patterns, target number and which one doesn't belong. In grade 5 social studies we looked at maps of Canada and did a scavenger hunt looking for provinces and territories. We were trying to find things on the map that were natural and not man made.  In grade 6 we started to learn about Canadian democracy. We discussed what societies we belong to. In grade 5 science we began learning about we